{"id":1786,"date":"2007-03-27T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2007\/03\/27\/goodbye-ararat\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T22:37:47","slug":"goodbye-ararat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2007\/03\/27\/goodbye-ararat\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Ararat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Ararat up on North Loop closed a few days ago. Sad news. I discovered it in &#8217;95, and it had been one of my favorite places ever since. Gwen and I had our rehearsal dinner there.<\/p>\n<p>It took a long time for the place to catch on, but once it did, they never seemed to lack for business. Still, I was aware that they were having a hard time making ends meet, and had held a few fundraisers over the years. Clearly that wasn&#8217;t enough. I wonder what exactly did them in. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they couldn&#8217;t fit enough tables in to make a go of it, or if their rent was recently raised, seeing as how North Loop has become much trendier of late. If that&#8217;s so, it&#8217;s another case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. North Loop is trendy in part because of Ararat.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update<\/ins>: I don&#8217;t normally look at\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmuch less link to\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmyspace, but here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendID=65992704&#038;blogID=248092017&#038;MyToken=81873176-0df1-4a38-8487-cbcc8b7db037\">Kelly&#8217;s side of the story.<\/a> Kelly was the &#8220;face&#8221; of Ararat to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Ararat up on North Loop closed a few days ago. Sad news. I discovered it in &#8217;95, and it had been one of my favorite places ever since. Gwen and I had our rehearsal dinner there. It took a long time for the place to catch on, but once it did, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,368],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","tag-ararat","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}